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Christopher Board
He has written text introductions for several reprints of old Ordnance Survey maps, published by Alan Godfrey Maps.
OBE
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two o ...
is a British cartographer and academic. Among his special interests are the histories of cartography
Cartography (; from , 'papyrus, sheet of paper, map'; and , 'write') is the study and practice of making and using maps. Combining science, aesthetics and technique, cartography builds on the premise that reality (or an imagined reality) can ...
and of military mapping in colonial South Africa.
Career
Board was appointed a lecturer in geography at theLondon School of Economics
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), established in 1895, is a public research university in London, England, and a member institution of the University of London. The school specialises in the social sciences. Founded ...
from 1 October 1963, eventually retiring as a Senior Lecturer.
He served as chair of the UK Committee for Cartography, and of the British Cartographic Society
The British Cartographic Society (BCS) is an association of individuals and organisations dedicated to exploring and developing the world of maps. It is a registered charity. Membership includes national mapping agencies, publishers, designers, ...
. In 1980 he was a founder of the Charles Close Society, for the study of Ordnance Survey
The Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain. The agency's name indicates its original military purpose (see Artillery, ordnance and surveying), which was to map Scotland in the wake of the Jacobite rising of ...
maps, and served as its chair for sixteen years to 2012. During his chairmanship, he almost doubled the society's membership.
He was co-organiser of the International Cartographic Association
The International Cartographic Association (ICA) (, ''ACI'') is an organization formed of national member organizations, to provide a forum for issues and techniques in cartography and geographic information science (GIScience). ICA was founde ...
(ICA) conference in 1991. He edited the ICA Newsletter for several years from the mid-1990s. He chaired the ICA's History of Cartography Commission from 1999 to 2003, having earlier played a key role in its Commission of Cartographic Communication for seven years, after the death of its sitting chair.
His 1993 book with Peter Barber, head of maps at the British Library
The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. Based in London, it is one of the largest libraries in the world, with an estimated collection of between 170 and 200 million items from multiple countries. As a legal deposit li ...
, ''Tales from the map room : fact and fiction about maps and their makers'' was a tie-in with the BBC television series '' Tales from the Map Room''.
He has written text introductions for several reprints of old Ordnance Survey maps, published by Alan Godfrey Maps.
Honours
Board was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the International Cartographic Association in 1999, and received the British Cartographic Society Medal in September 2004. He was appointed anOfficer of the Order of the British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two o ...
(OBE) in the 2005 New Year Honours
New Year Honours were granted in the United Kingdom and New Zealand at the start of 2005. Among these in the UK were knighthoods awarded to Mike Tomlinson, the educationalist; Derek Wanless, who led a review of the National Health Service; ...
, for services to cartography.
Personal life
In 1983, Board was a contestant, partnered with a student, John Edmunds, on an episode of the television game show '' Treasure Hunt'' centred on theForest of Dean
The Forest of Dean is a geographical, historical and cultural region in the western part of the Counties of England, county of Gloucestershire, England. It forms a roughly triangle, triangular plateau bounded by the River Wye to the west and no ...
, Gloucestershire.
Selected papers
* * "Maps as Models". In: Chorley R.J., and Haggett P. (eds.), ''Models in Geography''. London: Methuen. 1967. * * * * *References
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